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Jenny’s story

Jenny was enjoying a holiday in Philadelphia for a friend’s wedding in 2009 when she found a lump in her breast. Back home in Oxfordshire she booked an appointment with her GP.

“She had a quick check and told me that it was most likely a hormonal cyst and to wait until my next cycle as it will most like disappear by itself,” says Jenny. It didn’t and, by then, suffering stabbing pains, she returned to the doctor’s.

“I was told the same thing, the risk category is 35 years old therefore it couldn’t possibly be anything sinister since I don’t have any family history as a close enough link.”

But with the lump still there and the pain still happening Jenny booked another appointment.“I had heard young women could get breast cancer so I wasn’t happy to be turned away another time,” she says.

Then fate intervened in the form of a magazine article about Kris Hallenga, who started CoppaFeel! after being diagnosed with terminal breast cancer aged 23, which Jenny spotted in her mum’s copy of Good Housekeeping.

Armed with Good Housekeeping she went back to the doctor’s and asked to be referred to a consultant. After being referred Jenny was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 26.

I couldn’t help myself after telling my family and friends about my news but to email Kris and CoppaFeel!. Jenny decided to get on board as a volunteer and join the awesome Boobettes.

“I wanted to say thank you to Kris and CoppaFeel!, there aren’t many people in the world lucky enough to be able to honestly say someone saved their life. Kris saved mine.

“Without Kris and her wonderful support network working so hard to set up CoppaFeel! to bring awareness and educate young women on the signs and symptoms of breast cancer I would not be able to sit here today and say I have been through my journey with the best result possible, cancer free.

I am privileged to say I am the first person that contacted CoppaFeel! to say thank you and tell them how they have not only changed my life but saved my life.”

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